http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/268/5/661.short The Children of Atomic Bomb Survivors: A Genetic Study. 1992. No differences were found (in frequencies of birth defects, stillbirths, etc), thus allaying the immediate public concern that atomic radiation might spawn an epidemic of malformed children.
Overseas Atomic Bomb Survivors Support Program, su pref.nagasaki.jp, Atomic Bomb Survivors Affairs Division Health And Welfare Department Nagasaki prefectural Government (archiviato dall'url originale il 30 settembre 2007).
Tabella statistica "casi di cancro" a cura RERF, su rerf.or.jp, Radiation Effects Research Foundation. URL consultato il 21 febbraio 2018 (archiviato dall'url originale il 28 novembre 2010).